Water-cycle.



'PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906. A. L. STANDARD.

WATER GYGLE. APPIVLIUATION FILED SEPT.29,1905.

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Witnesses No. 837,973; PATENTBD DEC. 11, 1906. A. L. STANDARD.

WATER CYCLE. APPLIOATION 'IILED BEPT.29, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLIE LEE STANDARD, OF TUSCOLA, TEXAS.

WATER-CYCLE.

No. 837,973. Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Dec. 11, 1906.Application filed September 29, 1905. Serial No. 280.647.

T wZZ wh m m y n braces 8, and an upper reach-bar 11 extends Be it knownthat I, ALLIE LEE STANDARD, between the upper portion of the steeringacitizen of the United States, residing at head4 and the seat-post 10.Asuitable seat Tuscola, in the county of Taylor and State of 12,preferably in the nature of a bicycle-seat, 6c exas, have invented a newand useful Wa is supported in any suitable manner upon the tor-Cycle, ofwhich the following is a specifi top of the seat-post. Downwardly andrearcation. wardly diverged braces 13 extend from the This inventionrelates to water-cycles, and top of the seat-post to the tops of therear has for its object to provide certain new and floats 2 and 3, towhich they are connected in useful improvements in this class of devicesany suitable manner in alinement with the whereby the same may beconveniently procross-bar 9. A suitable coupling 14, having pelled,steered, and otherwise handled. seats or sockets for the reception ofthe upper A further object of the invention is to so reach-bar 11, theseat-post members 10, and dispose the propeller-wheel as to have the thebraces 13, is employed to connect these same exert a lifting tendency aswell as a elements at their point of meeting. This driving force,thereby to add to the buoycoupling 14 also has an upright open-endedancy of the device. seat for the reception of a seat-post 15, which Withthese and other objects in view the also has its lower end portionloosely received present invention consists in the combination in a clip16, fixed to the members 10 and proand arrangement of parts, as will behereinvided with a set-screw 17 to engage the seatafter more fullydescribed, shown in the acpost and hold the cat at any adjustedelevacompanying drawings, and particularly pointtion. ed out in theappended claim, it being un- Within the fork 7 is a beveled gear 18,derstood that changes in the form, proporwhich is journaled in suitablebrackets or tion, size, and minor details may be made hangers 19,carried by the fork members, the within the scope of the claim withoutdepartends of the shaft of the wheel being provided ing from the spiritor sacrificing any of the with suitable pedal-cranks 20 formanipulaadvantages of the invention. tion by the feet of the rider whenmounted In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is upon the seat 12.Within the fork 7 and in 8 5 a side elevation, partly in section, of awatermesh with the gear 18 there is a beveled pincycle embodying thefeatures of the present ion 21, carried upon the upper forward end ofinvention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. a rearwardly anddownwardly inclined drive- Fig.3 is a detail plan view of one of thefloats. shaft 22, which has its upper end mounted in Like characters ofreference designate cora bearing 23, carried by the lower ends of theresponding parts in each figure of the drawmembers 10. The drive-shaft22 extends i slightly in rear of the cross-bar 9 and is For the supportof the framework of the mounted in a bearing 24, carried by said presentdevice there is a front cylindrical float cross-bar, there being asuitable propeller- I, having a conical forward end, and two rear wheel25, carried by the rear end of the drive- 5 floats 2 and 3, locatedequally at opposite shaft in a plane at right angles to the latter sidesof the front float and also provided with. and inclined upwardly andrearwardly. conical front ends. A steering head or bar When the deviceis in use, the operator 4 rises from the front float lsubstantiallymounts upon the seat 12 and operates the midway of its ends and isprovided at its uppropeller by means of the pedal-cranks 20, per endwith a handle-bar 5. A downwhereby the device is propelled forwardlywardly and rearwardly inclined reach-bar 6 and is steered by means ofthe handle-bar 5. extends from the steering-head at a suitable Toincrease the control of the device in steerheight above the float 1.This reach-bar is ing, a depending fin 26, in the nature of alonprovided with a fork 7 of suitable length, gitudinally-disposedblade, is carried by the which has the ends of its side members diunderside of the forward float 1, so as to 0bverged rearwardly to form braces8, which tain a sufficient purchase upon the water to are connected to across-bar 9, extending beeffectually guide the device. tween andconnecting the rear floats 2 and 3. The advantage of setting thepropeller at A seat-post composed of upwardly-converged an angle to thevertical is to impart a lifting I 10 bar members 10 rises from thepoints of interpower upon the device, which adds materially sectionbetween the fork members 7 and the to its buoyancy, and therefore tendsto reduce the power necessary to propel the del upon which the frontfloat is pivotallymountvice. ed, a propeller-shaft journaled in the suport- In addition to having the forward end of ing-frame and having itsfree end inc ined each float substantially conical I propose todownwardly between the rear floats, a pro have the under side thereofinclined or flared peller carried by said shaft and disposed subupwardlyand forwardly, as clearly indicated stantially in alinement with thefront float, in Fig. 1 of the drawings, whereby the float the side andbottom walls of the rear floats has a tendency to raise or lift itselfrather being smooth and unobstructed, and a longithan to bury itself inthe water. Furthertudinally-disposed fin depending from the more, therear end of each float is tapered or bottom of the front float betweenthe pointed reduced in Width, as best indicated in Fig. 3, l terminaland inclined end walls thereof and thereby to ermit of the float leavingthe wal having its free end extended below and dister with a c ear run.posed in alinement with the apex of the in- Having thus described theinvention, What clined end walls of said float. is claimed is Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as A water-cycle including aplurality of submy own I have hereto aflixed my signature in stantiaillycylindlrifrial floats arranged in trianthe presence of two witnesses.gular orm, saic oats being each rovic ed with a ointed terminal andhaving parallel ALLIE STANDARD top, si e and bottom walls and inclinedend Witnesses:

.walls, a frame connecting said floats, a steer- W. A. MCCORMICK,

ing-head forming a part of the frame and I R. L. FLIPPo.

